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Xenogenesis

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XENOGENESIS is a tale of change; inexorable and inevitable. Human beings are always craving change but when it comes it is frightening . . . Sometimes to the point that we would prefer death.

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Bio of J. Richard Jacobs

Well, hello to you and welcome. I'm J. Richard Jacobs, but you can call me "J" and dispense with all the rest of it. I've been an avid and active amateur astronomer since my "first light" through a telescope in 1947 (is he that old?) and began writing professional level in 1956. Technical writing, copy writing and technical illustration were the income generators until 1965, when I turned my attention to naval architecture. There was a brief (28 year) hiatus in my writing while I spent my time doing the science and engineering involved in the largest moving structures on Earth, although I continued to write papers and articles on applied math, science, engineering, design, and astronomy. These days, now that I'm "retired," I write Science Fiction in both the hard and soft varieties. But, honestly, I tend to cross genre a lot because of the way I feel about populating a story with reachable, touchable characters with all their strengths, weaknesses, successes, failures and foibles. I write Fantasy, too, but I've never managed to do it successfully in novel lengths--just can't seem to hurdle that short story wall, but I have a lot of fun with the short stories I write. I've tried my hand at Horror, but, for some reason, I've had trouble with that, too. Someday, when I'm in a particularly nasty mood, I may be able to do it. In the meantime, my horror pieces tend to be very short...and funny. Oh, well...I guess I'm stuck with Humorous Horror.

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Imprint

Double Dragon Publishing

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819.53 KB

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eBook ISBN

9781554042623

Excerpt from: Xenogenesis by J. Richard Jacobs

5 June 2191
People are constantly trying to free themselves from one thing or another. It's as if they believed some other -ism-any other -ism-would be better than the -ism they have. In their pursuit of liberty from this -ism people often enslave themselves to that -ism. That, my friends, is real-ism.

-JD Scott

John Lee, ghetto battle disfigured and street-gang tattooed, stopped by the restaurant's front door and slapped a large red button with his free hand. The other trembled under a wobbling stack of chipped and cracked plates dripping a dark brown, greasy fluid-the remains of what the menu said was Chow Mein. The locals knew the stuff as Lee's Brown Death. The drops hit the floor and vanished on tiles colored to camouflage all but the worst spills.

"Okay everybody, you got twenty minute. Eat, drink, pay, then goodbye," he announced in a phony SinoSec singsong while a heavy steel grating, answering the command from the button, rattled its way down over the narrow, rectangular windows of wire reinforced two centimeter tempered plate in a disgusting display of people protecting themselves from people.

It was late afternoon, and the counter was empty except for one man seated near the windows. He was tall, too tall, so his knees pressed firmly into the underside of a counter designed to the corporate standard.